OpenMQTTGateway is, as the name suggests, a bi-directional gateway between MQTT and other hardware and/or protocols that may be running in or around your smart home. It supports most of the ESP8266 range of hardware, as well as an Arduino equipped with a Wiz W5100 ethernet adapter. The basic idea is that your ESP (or Arduino) interfaces with MQTT on the main network and provides seamless communications with (for instance) 433MHz or IR devices which otherwise are not directly connected.

A while back Florian made the package easily upgradeable by adding module support, where contributors can add support for other hardware and protocols by adding additional module files, rather than having to mess with the core functionality. This usually comes down to adding a single “ZgatewayXX.ino” or “ZsensorXX.ino” file (where “XX” is a unique identifier) and possibly an additional .h file, depending upon how complex your Z file is.

The latest addition is for a Bluetooth Low Energy based plant sensor (the Mi Flora) and provides a useful example of interfacing to BLE devices.